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Robert Kurzban

Psychology

#311

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#437

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#209

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Evolutionary Psychology

#7

World Rank

#7

Historical Rank

#6

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Cognitive Psychology

#88

World Rank

#91

Historical Rank

#39

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PhD Psychology University of California, Santa Barbara
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Kurzban is an American freelance writer and former psychology professor specializing in evolutionary psychology. Career Kurzban was a tenured professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania until 2018, when he resigned following allegations of inappropriate relationships with undergraduate students. Following his resignation, he was dismissed as the director of the department's honors program. He also resigned as president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society and as Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s journal, Evolution and Human Behavior. Since then he has worked as a freelance writer.

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Robert Kurzban's Published Works

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Evolutionary origins of stigmatization: the functions of social exclusion. (2001) (1227)
An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance. (2013) (861)
Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization (2001) (754)
Modularity in cognition: framing the debate. (2006) (629)
Disgust: evolved function and structure. (2013) (602)
Oxytocin is associated with human trustworthiness (2005) (535)
Experiments investigating cooperative types in humans: a complement to evolutionary theory and simulations. (2005) (432)
Perceptions of race (2003) (325)
Cognitive systems for revenge and forgiveness. (2013) (323)
HurryDate: Mate preferences in action (2005) (317)
Audience effects on moralistic punishment (2007) (313)
Revisiting Kindness and Confusion in Public Goods Experiments (2002) (271)
A Solution to the Mysteries of Morality (2016) (237)
Does the Brain Consume Additional Glucose during Self-Control Tasks? (2010) (232)
The neurobiology of trust. (2008) (223)
Testosterone Administration Decreases Generosity in the Ultimatum Game (2009) (218)
Mysteries of morality (2009) (212)
The evolution of altruism in humans. (2015) (202)
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind (2011) (201)
Individual differences in cooperation in a circular public goods game (2001) (192)
Evolutionary theory and psychopathy (2011) (186)
Anxiety and Intergroup Bias: Terror Management or Coalitional Psychology? (2004) (173)
Incremental Commitment and Reciprocity in a Real-Time Public Goods Game (2001) (169)
The Alliance Hypothesis for Human Friendship (2009) (161)
The Social Psychophysics of Cooperation: Nonverbal Communication in a Public Goods Game (2001) (153)
The Origins of Shared Intuitions of Justice (2006) (132)
Sex, drugs and moral goals: reproductive strategies and views about recreational drugs (2010) (127)
The Neurobiology of Trust (2004) (126)
Do humans really punish altruistically? A closer look (2013) (118)
A meta-analysis of blood glucose effects on human decision making. (2016) (105)
The sense of effort (2016) (104)
The Omission Strategy (2011) (103)
What predicts religiosity? A multinational analysis of reproductive and cooperative morals (2013) (88)
Explaining Clustering in Social Networks: Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Cascading Benefits (2006) (86)
Modularity and the Social Mind (2007) (79)
The Neuroeconomics of Distrust: Sex Differences in Behavior and Physiology. (2005) (75)
Revealed preference, belief, and game theory (2000) (69)
Equity or equality? Moral judgments follow the money (2014) (69)
Evolved Mechanisms for Revenge and Forgiveness (2009) (68)
Managing Ingroup and Outgroup Relationships (2015) (67)
Hamilton vs. Kant: pitting adaptations for altruism against adaptations for moral judgment (2012) (66)
The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won't Admit It (2014) (65)
The omission effect in moral cognition: toward a functional explanation (2011) (65)
Concordance and Conflict in Intuitions of Justice (2007) (64)
Do advertised preferences predict the behavior of speed daters (2007) (59)
Minding the Metaphor: The Elusive Character of Moral Disgust (2011) (49)
Can manipulations of cognitive load be used to test evolutionary hypotheses? (2006) (49)
Social loafing vs. social enhancement: Public goods provisioning in real-time with irrevocable commitments (2003) (47)
Do Men Overperceive Women’s Sexual Interest? (2015) (47)
Best Friends (2011) (47)
Concordance & Conflict in Intuitions of Justice (2006) (45)
Self‐Interest Is Often a Major Determinant of Issue Attitudes (2017) (43)
The family of fundamental social categories includes kinship: Evidence from the memory confusion paradigm (2008) (43)
Putting revenge and forgiveness in an evolutionary context. (2013) (39)
Biological foundations of reciprocity. (2003) (36)
The height of choosiness: mutual mate choice for stature results in suboptimal pair formation for both sexes (2013) (35)
Omissions and Byproducts across Moral Domains (2012) (35)
Indelible Victims and Persistent Punishers in Moral Cognition (2012) (34)
The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind (2014) (34)
Reciprocity in groups : Information-seeking in a public goods game (2008) (33)
Cognitive and social adaptations for leadership and followership: Evolutionary game theory and group dynamics. (2007) (32)
Individual Differences in Reproductive Strategy are Related to Views about Recreational Drug Use in Belgium, The Netherlands, and Japan (2013) (30)
Revocable commitments to public goods provision under the real‐time protocol of play (2004) (28)
Epistemics for Forensics (2008) (27)
Whoever is not with me is against me: The costs of neutrality among friends (2017) (24)
Incremental approaches to establishing trust (2008) (23)
Making Hay Out of Straw? Real and Imagined Controversies in Evolutionary Psychology (2006) (20)
Conditional cooperation and group dynamics: Experimental evidence from a sequential public goods game (2003) (20)
Covert Sexual Signaling: Human Flirtation and Implications for other Social Species (2014) (20)
Toward an Evolutionarily Informed Political Psychology (2013) (19)
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life (2012) (19)
IS HOMO ECONOMICUS (2005) (18)
Adaptationist punishment in humans (2009) (17)
Subcomponents of psychopathy have opposing correlations with punishment judgments. (2013) (17)
Representing metarepresentations: Is there Theory of Mind-specific cognition? (2009) (16)
Cost-benefit models as the next, best option for understanding subjective effort (2013) (16)
Grand Challenges of Evolutionary Psychology (2010) (15)
Origins of Cumulative Culture (2012) (14)
Public Goods Games in Japan (2008) (13)
Do People Naturally Cluster into Liberals and Conservatives? (2016) (13)
Evolutionary behavioral economics (2016) (13)
What are the functions of System 2 modules? A reply to Chiappe and Gardner (2012) (12)
Robustness in a variable environment (2012) (12)
On the limitations of quasi-experiments (2005) (11)
Cheatin' Hearts & Loaded Guns: The High Fitness Stakes of Country Music Lyrics (2012) (10)
Rejection Hurts: The Effect of Being Dumped on Subsequent Mating Efforts (2010) (9)
Are experimental economists behaviorists and is behaviorism for the birds? (2001) (8)
Do (non-American) Men Overestimate Women’s Sexual Intentions? (2015) (8)
Nibbling on nature and nurture: On Our Minds: How Evolutionary Psychology is Reshaping the Nature-Versus-Nurture Debate by Eric M. Gander. John Hopkins University Press, 2004. US$45.00 hbk (293 pages) ISBN 0 8018 7387 8 (2004) (8)
Reply to “A Preregistered Study of Competing Predictions Suggests That Men Do Overestimate Women’s Sexual Intent” (2017) (7)
Two problems with self-deception : No self and no deception (2011) (7)
Facial Movements Are Not Goosebumps: A Response to Chapman and Anderson (2011) (7)
Explicit and implicit strategies in decision making (2008) (6)
Applied Darwinian medicine: artificial selection for less-harmful parasites. (2008) (5)
Intuitions of Punishment (2010) (5)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and the Nature of the Adapted Mind (1995) (5)
Individual decision making and the evolutionary roots of institutions (2008) (5)
Audience effects on moralistic punishment B (2007) (5)
REVISITING CONFUSION IN PUBLIC GOODS EXPERIMENTS (2000) (5)
Sugar levels relate to aggression in couples without supporting the glucose model of self-control (2014) (4)
Minimal Group Experiments (2006) (4)
THEORETICAL NOTE Modularity in Cognition: Framing the Debate (2006) (4)
The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit (2nd ed.): By Melvin Konner, New York: Henry Holt and Co. Times Books, 2002. 736 pp. ISBN: 0-7167-4602-6, US$35.00 (2003) (3)
The Elephant in the Pews (2016) (3)
Social and biological evidence on motives for punishment (2011) (3)
On the Advantages of Being Wrong (2012) (3)
WITHDRAWN: Audience effects on moralistic punishment☆ (2006) (2)
Cooperation and Conflict between Kith, Kin, and Strangers (2008) (2)
Artificial Natural Selection: Can Supplemental Feeding Domesticate Mosquitoes and Control Mosquito-Borne Diseases? (2012) (2)
The Cascading Benefits of Clusters: How Network Density Affects Tie Strength (2005) (2)
Realism, Punishment, and Reform (2010) (2)
The Evolution of Implicit and Explicit Decision Making (2008) (1)
Apologies Promote Forgiveness and Restore Cooperation by Increasing Perceived Relationship Value (2018) (1)
Individual Differences in Reproductive Strategy are Related to Views about Recreational Drug Use in Belgium, The Netherlands, and Japan (2013) (1)
Erratum: 'Anxiety and intergroup bias: Terror management or coalitional psychology' (Group Processes and Intergroup Relations vol. 7 (4) (370-397)) (2005) (1)
Evolutionary psychology (2007) (1)
Why Do Animals Seem So Smart and People Seem So Stupid ? (2019) (0)
Chapter 10. Morality Is for the Birds (2011) (0)
Realism, Punishment & Reform [A Reply to Braman, Kahan, and Hoffman, "Some Realism About Punishment Naturalism”] (2010) (0)
Chapter 2. Investigating Interests (2014) (0)
Chapter 7. Self-Deception (2011) (0)
Chapter 1. Agendas in Action (2014) (0)
The Human Mind: Evolution's Tinkering or Michelangelo's Chiseling? (2002) (0)
Chapter 2. Evolution and the Fragmented Brain (2011) (0)
Data for: Whoever is not with me is against me: The costs of neutrality among friends (2017) (0)
8 Evolutionary Behavioral Economics (2016) (0)
Chapter 9. Morality and Contradictions (2011) (0)
Adaptationist punishment in humans (2013) (0)
Chapter 9. The Democratic Coalition (2014) (0)
Smartphone breaks and fatigue 2018 (2018) (0)
Second- and Third-Party Punishment (2017) (0)
Do (non-American) Men Overestimate Women’s Sexual Intentions? (2015) (0)
Chapter 4. Modular Me (2011) (0)
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CHAPTER 18 Morality Is for Choosing Sides (2018) (0)
Chapter 1. Consistently Inconsistent (2011) (0)
Chapter 8. The Republican Coalition (2014) (0)
Realism, Punishment & Reform (2010) (0)
Ackoff Doctoral Student Award Proposal Title: the Development of Common Knowledge Representation (2005) (0)
Stated Versus Revealed Mate Preferences (2005) (0)
Chapter 5. Rules of the Game: Group Identities and Human Capital (2014) (0)
Chapter 5. The Truth Hurts (2011) (0)
Chapter 7. The Many Shades of Red and Blue (2014) (0)
Perpetrators are condemned more when they know, rather than merely believe, they will cause harm (2017) (0)
Part III: Political Coalitions (2014) (0)
Chapter 3. Who Is “I”? (2011) (0)
HYPOCRISY REVEALED (AND THOUGHTS ON THE ROLE OF MODULARITY IN EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY) (2012) (0)
Chapter 8. Self-Control (2011) (0)
Chapter 6. Psychological Propaganda (2011) (0)
Differences in Cooperation 1 Individual Differences in Cooperation in a Circular Public Goods Game (2000) (0)
How the States Shaped the Nationwill be of great value to scholars of voter turnout, state politics, and American political development. The careful data collection re- quired, along with the rich historical details of state (2016) (0)
Do People Naturally Cluster into Liberals and Conservatives? (2015) (0)
A11. When Political Neutrality Backfires (2018) (0)
Chapter 6. Money Matters: Redistribution and Hard-Times Programs (2014) (0)
Chapter 10. An Uncomfortable Take on Political Positions (2014) (0)
Chapter 4. Fighting over Sex: Lifestyle Issues and Religion (2014) (0)
Evolution and the Human Mind: Modularity, Language and Meta‐Cognition (2008) (0)
Chapter 3. Machiavellian Minds (2014) (0)
Condemnation of Omission and Gettier cases (2017) (0)

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